Participants assumed that since no one mentioned Pat's most relevant attribute -- competence -- that Pat must be a very nice doofus.
These days, shortcomings are attributed to competence rather than ideology.
Focusing on caring attitudes, Roach (1987) also proposed that caring behavior in nursing is manifested through the five 'C ' attributes: compassion, competence, confidence, conscience and commitment [ 21].
The human mind is intricately adept at making subconscious judgments (Bargh and Chartrand 1999) and parental perceptions of their youth's attributes and competence influence their expectations, values, and ultimately their child's behavior (Jacobs and Eccles 1992; Jacobs et al. 2005).
Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has never lost an election, even as a Democrat in a Republican-dominated state, something analysts attribute to cool competence, a lifelong education in politics and a knack for reaching across the political divide.
Aaker, Vohs, and Mogilner were particularly interested in how consumers view for-profits and nonprofits in terms of two key attributes: warmth and competence.
This study presents data from a field experiment on the unregulated market for certification of baseball cards to assess the role of independence vis-à-vis other auditor attributes such as competence, price, and service on audit quality.
Its high survival in vivo could be attributed to its competence to colonize murine lungs and to breach the epithelial barrier.
Many of the attributes that comprise competence in professionalism have been identified [ 7, 8].
Using the methodology described facility scores, summary process attributes for technical competence with equal weights (total score of 47) were derived from the observation checklists of client-provider interactions.
The ability of this viral oncogene to extend the cellular lifespan has been attributed to its competence to abrogate the function of the cell cycle regulators p53 and pRb.
